Faculty & Advisors

AI & Robotics

Chairs

Advisors

  • Ben Goertzel, PhD – Founder, Novamente; Director of Research, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  • Jason Lohn, PhD – Senior Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dharmendra Modha – Manager, Cognitive Computing, IBM Almaden Research Center
  • Peter Norvig, PhD – Director of Research, Google; Co-author, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  • Sebastian Thrun, PhD – Professor of Computer Science and Director, Stanford AI Laboratory; Winner of DARPA Grand Challenge
  • Raj Reddy, PhD – Professor of Computer Science & Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

Biotechnology & Bioinformatics

Chairs

Advisors

  • Daniel Reda – Co-Founder, CureTogether
  • Aubrey de Grey, PhD – Chairman & CSO, SENS Foundation
  • David Haussler, PhD – Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
  • Stuart Kim, PhD – Professor, Developmental Biology, Stanford University

Medicine & Neuroscience

Chairs

Advisors

Nanotechnology

Chairs

  • Ralph Merkle, PhD – Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
  • Robert A Freitas, Jr, JD – Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing

Advisors

  • J Storrs Hall – President, Foresight Institute; Author, Beyond AI and Nanofuture
  • Neil Jacobstein – Media X Program, Stanford University

Space & Physical Sciences

Chairs

  • Dan Barry, MD, PhD – Three-time NASA astronaut
  • Chris Boshuizen – Systems Engineer / Technical Liaison, NASA Ames Research Center

Advisors

  • Peter Diamandis, MD – Founder & Chairman, X PRIZE Foundation; Co-Founder & Chairman, Singularity University
  • George Smoot, PhD – 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
  • Jeffrey Hoffman, PhD – MIT Professor of Aerospace Engineering; former NASA astronaut
  • Robert Richards, PhD – Founder, Odyssey Moon
  • Stephanie Langhoff, PhD – Chief Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
  • Pete Worden, PhD – Director, NASA Ames Research Center

Energy & Environmental Systems

Chairs

  • Gregg Maryniak, JD – Vice President, Energy and Aerospace, St. Louis Science Center; Director, JS McDonnell Planetarium
  • Jim Hurd – Director, GreenScience Exchange
  • Michel Gelobter, PhD – Founder, Cooler, Inc.

Advisors

  • Saul Griffith, PhD – Eyeglasses, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons, and Makani Power
  • Dan Kammen, PhD – Lead Author, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC report; Faculty, UC Berkeley
  • Dan Whaley – Founder and CEO, Climos

Networks & Computing Systems

Chairs

  • John Gage – Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
  • Bob Metcalfe, PhD – Founder, 3Com; co-inventor of Ethernet; General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

Advisors

  • Vint Cerf, PhD – Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
  • Larry Smarr, PhD – Director, CA Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology
  • Will Wright – Creator, SimCity, Spore; Founder, Maxis (Electronic Arts)
  • Brad Templeton – Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Bruce Damer – Founder and CEO, DigitalSpace; Director, The Contact Consortium
  • Rohit Khare – Former Director of CommerceNet Labs; Founder, Ångströ
  • Salim Ismail – Executive Director, Singularity University
  • David Orban – Founder and Chief Evangelist, WideTag

Futures Studies & Forecasting

Chairs

  • Paul Saffo – Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
  • Ray KurzweilPhD, Author and Inventor; Founder, Kurzweil Technologies; Co-Founder & Chancellor, Singularity University

Advisors

  • James Canton, PhD – CEO and Chairman, Institute for Global Futures
  • Jim Dator, PhD – Professor and Director, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
  • John Smart – Founder and President, Acceleration Studies Foundation
  • Peter Bishop, PhD – Associate Professor, College of Technology, University of Houston

Finance, Entrepreneurship & Economics

Chairs

Advisors

  • Martin Greenberger, PhD – IBM Chair in Information Systems, UCLA Anderson School of Management
  • Tina Seelig, PhD – Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
  • Tim Ferriss – Author, The 4-Hour Workweek
  • Tom Byers, PhD – Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford; Academic Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Policy, Law & Ethics

Chairs

  • Tara Lemmey – CEO, LENS Ventures; Former President, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Advisors

Team Projects

Project Leads

  • Lauren Fletcher – Engineer, Astrobiology, NASA Ames Research Center
  • Chris Lewicki – Chief Engineer, LewickiDyne Systems
  • Chris McKay, PhD – Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
  • John Hogan, PhD – Environmental Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
  • David Dell, PhD – Chairman, Sustainable Profitability Group
  • Jim Hurd – Director, GreenScience Exchange
  • Privahini Bradoo, PhD – VP, Strategy & Business Development, Microvi Biotech

Advisors